Re: tn3270, mset and map3270

[itohy%NetBSD.org@localhost (ITOH Yasufumi)]

In article <20100223164900.GB5957%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost writes:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:23:46PM +0900, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
> > We discussed termcap versus terminfo issue many years ago,
> > and we selected termcap since it is more flexible.
> > termcap allows users to use local capabilities
> > (not defined by standard) naturally,
> > but terminfo doesn't have portable way to do that.
> 
> Can you give a real world example of where this functionality is
> actually used and why terminfo(3) doesn't allow it.

Please take a look at /usr/share/misc/termcap file.
There are some "extension capabilities" which are commented out.
This means at least someone (besides me) used locally defined
capabilities.

Regards,
-- 
ITOH Yasufumi